Ten Feng Shui Tips for the Bachelor

According to "Practical Fen Shui" by Simon Brown, Feng Shui is a complicated set of rules that help people find "the spirit" of a place has an effect on your well-being. Feng Shui principles can help bachelor's select a good apartment, condominium or home, cancel "bad vibes" in their surroundings, and select furnishings that suits a person's personality. Look at ten tips that will help any bachelor live healthier.

Feng Shui Tips for Selecting an Apartment, Condominium or Home

Although sometimes the market for property and real estate can be booming or bust, the savvy bachelor should look for a number of things when selecting where to live.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 1: Choose a home that lets you get in touch with the natural world. Look at any location with a jaundiced eye and decide whether there is adequate lighting in the parking lots, adequate landscaping to soothe the senses, and adequate protection from noise. Ensure landscaping is well enough maintained to avoid security risks.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 2: Choose a home that provides an entrance with adequate privacy. Open space at the entryway may be more welcoming but can also be intrusive. If bathroom or bedroom windows are where someone can look in, consider blinds, paper or stained glass hanging to act as camouflage.

Feng Shui Tips for Canceling Bad Vibes in Surroundings

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 3: In too bright, hot areas of your home, consider purchasing inexpensive plastic blinds. Lowe's provides a good service where they will cut the more inexpensive off the shelf blinds to a give size.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 4: In stagnant dark areas of your home, add red or purple and metal objects, open windows, use air fresheners, and buy floor stand lamps that are easily moved to provide additional lighting.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 5: Liven up huge expanses of the requisite white walls in rental spaces with colorful art that fits your personality.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 6: Choose plants to soften noisy entrances. Two bachelor friendly plants that are hardy and soften chi are figs and ivy.

Feng Shui Tips for Furnishings that Suits the Bachelor Life

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 7 : Lack of clutter is a fundamental of Feng Shui. Clutter makes energy spin and stir and can be stressful. Buy adequate storage in plastics to organize your tools and papers. [See photograph 1] Plastics containers to hold food supplies will help them last longer. [See photograph 2]

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 8: Choose fabrics that are durable in neutral tones. Bachelor's should add yang to make women more comfortable by selecting some softer, more curving furnishings than they typically might choose. [See photograph 3] Adding glass covers over table tops and end tables adds excitement that is good for romance but are also easier to clean. [See photograph 4] Include candles in your home to both calm chi, add romance and provide light scent with the added benefit they are good to have in emergencies.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 9: A major principle of Feng Shui is managing traffic flow. Select furnishings that are suitable for one or two persons at most and plan to group them for conversation. One or two person items are easier to move and more flexible when changing to a different residence.

Feng Shui Tip for Bachelors 10: Select furnishings that are lightweight and easily moved. Consider furniture made of lightweight materials like bamboo, aluminum, plastic.